Opinion
Colton Boushie’s death was tragic and affected many families including Gerald Stanley’s family.
Colton Boushie’s life was taken from him on August 9, 2016 and at the same time Gerald Stanley’s world was turned upside down.
I was not there and I do not know all the details. I do know that a group outing turned tragic and a family’s life has been negatively affected permanently.
Colton Boushie’s death may have been the result of poor policing, over protection of property, overreaction, fear, hysteria or frustration from increasing rural crime.
Gerald Stanley may have been fearful, over-protective and overwhelmed by the unexpected events, I do not know. I do know that he was found not guilty by a jury of his peers. I still want to believe that one is innocent until proven guilty.
The system may be flawed, but Gerald Stanley did not create the system. We did. Colton Boushie’s death was unnecessary and the system may of let him down. It may have been in the courtroom, but I sense it let him down before August 9, 2016.
It may have been simply bravado, alcohol, stress, fear, a clash of cultures, events escalating out of control, to a tragic end but at least 2 families are suffering because of it.
Can we fix the system? No we can’t. We will try and we will push the pendulum too far in the other direction and we will celebrate until reality kicks in.
Remember Women’s Lib? I was around in the sixties and lived through women’s rights issues very similar to what is happening in today’s news. The racism issues flare up on regular basis and the populace takes note, complains gets promises, compromises and missteps. Then after a period of time, with another group in a different place it happens again.
We can’t fix the system but we can adapt to the times of today but it will be broken again tomorrow.
Colton Boushie’s death was unnecessary and he will be mourned and I hope we can find solutions to prevent it from happening to someone else.
Gerald Stanley, whether guilty or innocent of a crime, will continue to be punished in the court of public opinion and that too needs fixing. Can we fix it? No we can’t.
The most rational of people can be irrational, caught up in the moment, go with the flow, be one with the crowd, then they feel remorse. We need to be rational now if we can find any way to fix this without going too far.
Can we be rational? I hope so.
From the X account of Andrew Scheer
Mark Carney spent his entire life promoting the carbon tax.
Now he’s trying to scam Canadians out of billions and to do it he’s put a whole crew together.
It could be the biggest con job in Canadian history. Only YOU can stop it! pic.twitter.com/1DyywsynBN
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) February 22, 2025
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Newt Gingrich
In an amazing show of courage, Vice President J.D. Vance offered an intervention for some of our European allies.
That is the best way to think of the two historic speeches he made in France and Germany last week.
In Paris, Vice President Vance pledged the United States would do whatever it takes to lead the world in the development of Artificial Intelligence. He went on to assert that Europe’s automatic response to regulate technological change rather than adapt to it was doomed to fail.
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Vance warned the Europeans that the Trump administration would retaliate to protect American high-tech companies from being fined and regulated by the European community.
Then, Vance went to the Munich Security Conference. It is the annual meeting of European leaders concerned about defense and threats to peace. The Vice President shocked the Europeans by launching a frontal assault on the decay of their political system.
As Vance put it:
“But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.”
He then went through a litany of specific complaints about the behavior of different European countries. They ranged from failing to control immigration, suppressing free speech, and Brussels seeking to control and define futures of independent countries such as Hungary and Romania.
The leading French newspaper, Le Monde (their equivalent of the New York Times) asserted that the American Vice President was declaring “ideological war on Europe.”
Le Monde was right. The European elites have been decaying for at least two generations. They hide behind their privileged status and take ideological positions that feel good but are destructive. Europe’s failures are devastating for most everyday Europeans.
I have personal knowledge about this. I have a Ph.D. in Modern European History – and I have lived in France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. As a young Army dependent, we were living in France when the French Army came back from Algeria, killed the French Fourth Republic and brought back General Charles de Gaulle to establish the Fifth Republic.
It is now the longest serving non-royal government in French history.
The European elites value each other’s opinions more than they value serving the people of Europe. The European elites live in a fantasy world of green policies that destroy industries and jobs, welfare policies which destroy the work ethic, and immigration policies which undermine the popular culture. They simply hope for a peaceful world without a strong military.
Meanwhile, state enforced speech codes protect Islamic extremists at the expense of local citizens.
The result has been a steady decline of European culture, economic development, and defensive capacity.
The Afghan Islamist who wounded more than two dozen people and killed a mother and her two-year-old daughter with a car two days before the supposed security conference signals the willful avoidance of reality at the heart of the elite European worldview.
To be clear, I admire European civilization. I believe America is far stronger and safer if Europe is healthy and capable of growing and defending itself.
I hope vice president Vance’s intervention at least starts European elites thinking about what must be done to revive their continent.
For more commentary from Newt Gingrich, visit Gingrich360.com. Also subscribe to the Newt’s World podcast.
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